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In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich warned of the dangers of overpopulation. These included mass starvation, societal uph...
Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KBBI Alaska, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more
- Added: Nov 14, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 6
Insurers who raise health care premiums, systematically deflect accountability for increases as necessary to cover rising health care costs. Deduc...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 07:48
-The Chicago Diabetes Project collaborates with the best minds in the country on a cure using cells rather than injections and surgery.
-Ryan Brown...
Bought by WJCT, WSGE, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 11
With surveillance cameras on the rise and cell phones in every pocket, video evidence is increasingly common in courtrooms. But there’s a lot we do...
- Added: Jul 14, 2017
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 2
Over the past few years, many parts of the country have experienced wetter wets and drier drys. California has seen five years of severe drought – ...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KWIT, KHSU, RadioFreePalmer, KCPW Salt Lake City and more
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 7
Do the baby boomers owe millennials a clean planet? Or is it every generation for itself? Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving their younger...
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KWIT, KZYX, KWMR, and NPR Now
- Added: Jun 08, 2017
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 5
Amazon has announced they will soon launch an attempt to eliminate that pesky feature of day-to-day life- ‘the grocery store check-out employee’. ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 07:13
Free speech is not the norm, and even in a country that explicitly protects speech in its foundational documents, censorship can still creep into o...
- Added: Nov 08, 2016
- Length: 58:45
First corporations became people. Now people are becoming businesses. That’s the logic of the marketplace applied to employment. Tonight, the third...
- Added: Nov 01, 2016
- Length: 57:51
Water shortages will continue to create pressures on farms throughout the world. Chris Moorman may have found an answer
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 54:00
A musical tribute to "My Funny I.T. Guy" . Blackberry phones - like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had- used to be considered difficult...
- Added: Jul 08, 2016
- Length: 02:08
Episode 110:
Given the exciting development of the FCC opening comment on petitions from Wilson, NC and Chattanooga, TN to restore local authority ...
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 24:41
Episode 59:
Chattanooga's EPB Fiber is the highest profile community network in the U.S. It was the first network in the nation to offer a symmetri...
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 24:59
Episode 2:
In our second podcast, we have interviewed Monica Webb with the Wired West Initiative in rural western Massachusetts. Like our first pod...
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 15:41
Episode 162:
A few weeks back, we noted an excellent new report on Holyoke Municipal Light Plant in Massachusetts published by the Berkman Center f...
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 20:04
Episode 113:
Though much of western Massachusetts has poor access to the Internet, the town of Leverett is in the midst of fiber build that will of...
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 18:25
Episode 65:
Holyoke Gas & Electric has been connecting community anchor institutions and local businesses in Western Massachusetts with fiber netwo...
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 17:25
Episode 63:
Jim Baller is back again for the second show in our series on the history of municipal broadband networks. He is the President of the ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 17:39
Episode 120:
Lisa Gonzalez and I have been wading though all kinds of crazy talk since the cities of Wilson and Chattanooga filed petitions with th...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 16:12
Episode 72: We are back with the fourth volume of our responding to "Crazy Talk" theme on the Community Broadband Bits podcast. The source of this ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 24:06
Episode 62:
Lisa Gonzalez and I are back with another back and forth reaction to some of the crazy claims made by opponents of community owned Inte...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 19:52
Episode 55:
Following up on our first "Responding to Crazy Talk" episode last month, we decided to publish a second edition this week. Again, Lisa...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 21:11
Episode 50:
For our 50th episode, we're trying something new: Lisa and I respond to three common claims made by opponents of community owned networ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 12:40
Episode 18:
Dewayne Hendricks is a serial entrepreneur, innovator, and wireless expert. Wired magazine labeled him a broadband cowboy back in 2001...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 26:34
Episode 83:
When we think about the threat of monopoly, we almost always focus on how monopolies can raise prices beyond what is reasonable. But th...
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 19:42
